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You can't buy a hybrid cloud as a product nor as a service, and even if you could you would need to customise it for your unique requirements and constraints. The reality today is you need to buy the ingredients from a supplier then roll your own hybrid cloud and to manage this you need to put in place a Hybrid Cloud Manifesto.

The SPC-2 benchmark is a useful benchmark for bandwidth intensive sequential workloads, such as backup, ETL (extraction, translate, load) and large-scale analytics. Wikibon does a deep comparative analysis of the SPC-2 results, time-adjusting the pricing information to correct for different publication dates. Wikibon then analyses performance and price-performance together, and develops a guide to enable practitioners to understand the business options and best strategic fit. Wikibon concludes the Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance dominates this high-bandwidth processing as of the best combination of good performance and great price performance at the high-end and mid-range of this market.

The thesis of the overall Wikibon research in this area is that within 2 years, the majority of IT installations will be moving to combine workloads together to share data using NAND flash as the only active storage media. This will save on IT budget and improve IT productivity, especially in the IT development function. Our research shows that these changes have the potential to reduce the typical IT budget by 34% over a five year period while delivering the same functionality to the business. The projected IT savings of moving to a shared-data all-flash datacenter for an organization with a $40M IT budget are $38M over 5 years, with an IRR of 246%, an annual ROI of 542%, and a breakeven of 13 months. Future research will look at the potential to maximize the contribution of IT to the business, and will conclude that IT budgets should increase to deliver historic improvements in internal productivity and increased business potential.

The Public Cloud market is still forming – but seems to be poised to soon enter the Early Majority stage of its development where user behavior, preferences, and strategies become more stable. Large enterprises are more discerning of Public Cloud IaaS offerings. Test and development appears to be a key entry point for them since scale, operational complexity, and security/compliance/regulatory demands require a more nuanced approach to Public Cloud for IaaS. Small and Medium enterprises have the greatest need for Public Cloud and should consider well-established, lower risk entry points to Public Cloud like SaaS, Email, and Web Applications before venturing into Mission Critical and IaaS workloads to help them navigate an increasingly complex and costly IT infrastructure environment.

Online Video Viewing Behavior: the Female Version

According to this Nielsen report, U.S online video consumption is on the rise, but even more notably, women between the ages of 25-44 – both stay-at-home moms and working women – like to spend more time watching clips, videos and TV shows online than one would think.

“Four key themes stood out:

Streaming among women is governed in large part by life stage and daily to-do lists, rather than age or employment status.

Digital mindsets change over the course of the day and vary according to time, mood, location and “available mindshare.”

The value of video as “social currency” is on the rise, leading some women to largely favor links suggested by friends.

Nielsen worked with the Today Show to product these statistics, as 35 women participated in their study. Its results summed up in the quote above provide more than just interesting data, as this study looks at female online video viewing from a specific brand’s view of the happenings, providing rather limited information on this area as a whole. Nonetheless, it does offer a unique overlook at a broadcaster’s online video expectations, particularly in light of women’s growing influence in online commerce, especially in the mobile sector.

Women are also beginning to seriously influence online retail, covered here, as online video is expected to be a substantial money-maker for advertisers, exceeding other online ad categories such as mobile, banner and wallpaper ads by 25%.

According to the latest comScore report, 5.5 billion online video views occurred in the U.S during October, attributed to 175 million U.S internet users.

About Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.